Isn’t it crazy - cartoons, ads, movies, schools etc fill our heads full of shit. Sadly, and this needs to be said, the vast majority of parents too, as most don’t see it, or if they do see it, simply want to protect their child’s innocence.
Yet in doing so, we repeat the web of nonsense that subjects kids all over the world to violence, subjugation, brutality, orphan status etc etc.
I saw an amazing clip of an Iranian mother being asked about her fears for her young son during the war - and she said “how is my son any different to a child in Gaza? We support the actions against the aggressors and accept the hardship now to help all children” - i’m paraphrasing a bit, but that’s pretty close.
That is the fire we need right there. Thankfully, as much as it personally pains me, I’m not bringing a child into this hellhole.
The first and foremost duty of police officers is to protect the system before the citizens. When citizens are upset and protest, security forces protect and cordon off parliaments, presidential palaces, ministries and all centres of state power…. Against citizens.
I feel sorry for young adults who plan on becoming a police officer when they are old enough, or similar job where they think they are going to be protecting the public, people like their neighbours and friend's. Instead they find after committing themselves into that branch of public service, that it's rare they get to be of service to the people they expected to be, more often they will have to act against them instead.
In a system where the label "democracy" is a cruel joke, it follows that the worst criminals have the inside track. And it follows that ass-covering propaganda and outright lying is the actual rule of law.
We have been conditioned all our lives to only discuss trivial issues, sports in particular and entertainment so our focus has been very narrow. If we veer away from those trivialities we are greeted by silence or the topic is switched on us. The public has been so brainwashed they think that is normal--well it isn't normal to not be able to discuss the war crimes committed by our so-called Democracy in the pursuit of "Freedom". The perpetrators need to be singled out and after they leave office prosecuted if not here (slight chance) then overseas as war criminals.
I rather disagree with the premise that those who control the theater are "free" agents.
These assholes can't step out of their homes (or castles) without armed body guards. Can't travel in commercial venues or within populated areas without cadres of pestering journalists, private handlers, and planned "security" protocols. They can't say or do anything without evidence becoming an item of record. They must "appear" in good form 24/7 - regardless of actual physical, mental, or spiritual health. They're imprisoned in an imaginary world they themselves created, and they'll never escape the illusions of status. Wonderful. I just think they're fucking idiots...
And so ironic. Many of them as you say, do live miserable lives, even as they wear the accoutements of success and have more money than most of us could ever imagine. And yet, it frequently is never enough - because what they really want can't be achieved by the path they've chosen. Empty souls in empty suits.
You and your husband wrote a book exactly about this—to help people unlearn what they’ve been spoon-fed by the ruling system and the patriarchy, and to give them a chance to escape the matrix. I only wish you had also published it on Kindle and not just in hard copy.
draw a picture of a pirate and he will have an eye patch , a peg leg, a trip corner hat, a sword and a flintlock pistol. when in reality it is a guy with an Armani suit, $ 5000 shoes, a $2000 hair cut, a Rolex watch, and a corner office on wall st.
The deadly decisions that justify crime on the battlefield originate in the boardroom, Parliaments/Congresses/Knessents. Everything that follows is just an implementation of those decisions. Two years ago the Israeli Knesset “debated” whether or not it was okay to rape prisoners. Since the rape of both male and female prisoners (probably children too) never stopped I guess they decided it was A-okay.
Yesterday they voted to hang Palestinians in their custody without a trial - not even a pretend trial. They do not consider them POWs or hostages, only “terrorists” to be exterminated at their pleasure. War Crime, International Law, Israel’s “right to defend itself”, the Holocaust, the “only democracy in the Middle East” are phrases I never want to hear again. They’re all perfectly meaningless and have no moral force.
They are pimps and drug dealers, and they succeed largely because we crave the false treasures they promise, and it is easy for them to ride those cravings having neutralized all resistance. An immune system can only expel the invaders it can recognize,and we have sold our ability to do even that.
I think that's the whole points of those cartoons, to create adults who think in those binary terms, and never look at who and what are causing so many of the catastrophes in our world that are unnecessary and that profit the already wealthy and powerful.
Oh, where have I read this: "The love of money is the root of all evil!" The people mentioned in this article truly LOVE MONEY! POINT-SET-MATCH! Metaphorically speaking as I don't believe in a literal HELL, which is a cancer of the soul, may these killers of the innocent burn in the HELL they've created here on earth!
The only place in the Bible that torment in fire is even mentioned is in the Revelation, and even then it’s not in Hell, it’s in the “lake of fire.” Hell is actually thrown INTO the lake of fire after everyone is removed from it (hell). See Rev 20. In the entirety of the rest of the Bible the fate of the wicked is destruction, not torture. Sometimes destruction by fire, as in Jesus’ references to “hellfire” (a mistranslation of “Gehenna,” which alluded to Jerusalem’s garbage dump. Ge henna means “valley of Hinnom,” which was the small valley there used to dump and burn trash. People would not have understood Jesus as referring to torture, but being discarded, burnt up, utterly disposed of.)
Those who know God know that he is not vicious. He does destroy those who deserve it, but takes no pleasure in doing it, and the very idea of eternal torment in fire is a lie promoted by the Enemy to defame God. See Ezekiel 33:11.
The “torment” in Revelation is from a Greek word that can also be translated “confinement” or “imprisonment.” When compared to the rest of scripture, it most likely means that although those in the “lake of fire” are destroyed, their deeds and the justice of their destruction are never forgotten, but kept as a record of justice for all time. Makes sense to me.
Isn’t it crazy - cartoons, ads, movies, schools etc fill our heads full of shit. Sadly, and this needs to be said, the vast majority of parents too, as most don’t see it, or if they do see it, simply want to protect their child’s innocence.
Yet in doing so, we repeat the web of nonsense that subjects kids all over the world to violence, subjugation, brutality, orphan status etc etc.
I saw an amazing clip of an Iranian mother being asked about her fears for her young son during the war - and she said “how is my son any different to a child in Gaza? We support the actions against the aggressors and accept the hardship now to help all children” - i’m paraphrasing a bit, but that’s pretty close.
That is the fire we need right there. Thankfully, as much as it personally pains me, I’m not bringing a child into this hellhole.
As far as the Americans and Israelis are concerned, there is no difference between an Iranian child and a Palestinian child.
Both are in the way.
Life in general is in the way from their perspective….
The first and foremost duty of police officers is to protect the system before the citizens. When citizens are upset and protest, security forces protect and cordon off parliaments, presidential palaces, ministries and all centres of state power…. Against citizens.
Governments "Democratic" or authoritarian, communist or fascist, the police remain the same.
The violent arm of the State, as you say ,
Of different colors are the same
I feel sorry for young adults who plan on becoming a police officer when they are old enough, or similar job where they think they are going to be protecting the public, people like their neighbours and friend's. Instead they find after committing themselves into that branch of public service, that it's rare they get to be of service to the people they expected to be, more often they will have to act against them instead.
All I know is someday they will gone off the surface of the earth. I sure hope there is hell for them to be in it for eternity!
In a system where the label "democracy" is a cruel joke, it follows that the worst criminals have the inside track. And it follows that ass-covering propaganda and outright lying is the actual rule of law.
We have been conditioned all our lives to only discuss trivial issues, sports in particular and entertainment so our focus has been very narrow. If we veer away from those trivialities we are greeted by silence or the topic is switched on us. The public has been so brainwashed they think that is normal--well it isn't normal to not be able to discuss the war crimes committed by our so-called Democracy in the pursuit of "Freedom". The perpetrators need to be singled out and after they leave office prosecuted if not here (slight chance) then overseas as war criminals.
This is a masterpiece.
I rather disagree with the premise that those who control the theater are "free" agents.
These assholes can't step out of their homes (or castles) without armed body guards. Can't travel in commercial venues or within populated areas without cadres of pestering journalists, private handlers, and planned "security" protocols. They can't say or do anything without evidence becoming an item of record. They must "appear" in good form 24/7 - regardless of actual physical, mental, or spiritual health. They're imprisoned in an imaginary world they themselves created, and they'll never escape the illusions of status. Wonderful. I just think they're fucking idiots...
The west is well on the way to being a glorified Brasil.
The present situation in Brasil suits the elites there just fine, and it will suit the elites in the west just dandy as well.
And so ironic. Many of them as you say, do live miserable lives, even as they wear the accoutements of success and have more money than most of us could ever imagine. And yet, it frequently is never enough - because what they really want can't be achieved by the path they've chosen. Empty souls in empty suits.
You and your husband wrote a book exactly about this—to help people unlearn what they’ve been spoon-fed by the ruling system and the patriarchy, and to give them a chance to escape the matrix. I only wish you had also published it on Kindle and not just in hard copy.
What’s the title of that book please?
“Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix”
draw a picture of a pirate and he will have an eye patch , a peg leg, a trip corner hat, a sword and a flintlock pistol. when in reality it is a guy with an Armani suit, $ 5000 shoes, a $2000 hair cut, a Rolex watch, and a corner office on wall st.
The deadly decisions that justify crime on the battlefield originate in the boardroom, Parliaments/Congresses/Knessents. Everything that follows is just an implementation of those decisions. Two years ago the Israeli Knesset “debated” whether or not it was okay to rape prisoners. Since the rape of both male and female prisoners (probably children too) never stopped I guess they decided it was A-okay.
Yesterday they voted to hang Palestinians in their custody without a trial - not even a pretend trial. They do not consider them POWs or hostages, only “terrorists” to be exterminated at their pleasure. War Crime, International Law, Israel’s “right to defend itself”, the Holocaust, the “only democracy in the Middle East” are phrases I never want to hear again. They’re all perfectly meaningless and have no moral force.
They are pimps and drug dealers, and they succeed largely because we crave the false treasures they promise, and it is easy for them to ride those cravings having neutralized all resistance. An immune system can only expel the invaders it can recognize,and we have sold our ability to do even that.
"Succession Of Slaughter
"But the worst perpetrators of injustice have been US Presidents and business and international colonial powers."
https://griobhtha1.substack.com/p/x-rubicon-lies-and-damned-lies
I think that's the whole points of those cartoons, to create adults who think in those binary terms, and never look at who and what are causing so many of the catastrophes in our world that are unnecessary and that profit the already wealthy and powerful.
I have always thought that anarchist critiques of state and power were founded. The question is what to replace them with?
I used to think having a State Constitution was a good start. But maybe not.
Oh, where have I read this: "The love of money is the root of all evil!" The people mentioned in this article truly LOVE MONEY! POINT-SET-MATCH! Metaphorically speaking as I don't believe in a literal HELL, which is a cancer of the soul, may these killers of the innocent burn in the HELL they've created here on earth!
The only place in the Bible that torment in fire is even mentioned is in the Revelation, and even then it’s not in Hell, it’s in the “lake of fire.” Hell is actually thrown INTO the lake of fire after everyone is removed from it (hell). See Rev 20. In the entirety of the rest of the Bible the fate of the wicked is destruction, not torture. Sometimes destruction by fire, as in Jesus’ references to “hellfire” (a mistranslation of “Gehenna,” which alluded to Jerusalem’s garbage dump. Ge henna means “valley of Hinnom,” which was the small valley there used to dump and burn trash. People would not have understood Jesus as referring to torture, but being discarded, burnt up, utterly disposed of.)
Those who know God know that he is not vicious. He does destroy those who deserve it, but takes no pleasure in doing it, and the very idea of eternal torment in fire is a lie promoted by the Enemy to defame God. See Ezekiel 33:11.
The “torment” in Revelation is from a Greek word that can also be translated “confinement” or “imprisonment.” When compared to the rest of scripture, it most likely means that although those in the “lake of fire” are destroyed, their deeds and the justice of their destruction are never forgotten, but kept as a record of justice for all time. Makes sense to me.
Being a mass murder seems to be part of the job requirement these days. Sickening!
Thank You Caitlin